Onward Redwood Valley Pinot Noir Hawkeye Ranch 2022 NO20231115 65% new French oak and

65% new French oak and 35% 1-year old French oak with malolactic fermentation in barrel

were pressed using a traditional Champagne cycle and press cut

The 2024 is impossibly balanced

far more interesting than it has any right to be

this bright

Onward Redwood Valley Pinot Noir Hawkeye Ranch 2022 NO20231115 65% new French oak andFaith Armstrong Foster named her winery after the small boat that ferried her to school from a tiny island in British Columbia: Onward. The name suits her, because she has spent a career moving steadily toward wines with more restraint than California usually permits. Hawkeye Ranch, up in Mendocino's Redwood Valley, is her long standing source, with gravelly loam farmed organically and certified Fish Friendly, and Pinot Noir vines planted in the 1970s